May 24, 2000 - Sniffing the Editable Mode

Internet Explorer 5.5 and up supports editable objects within an HTML document. You can set an object to be editable by the contentEditable property. You can also find out if an object is currently editable by the isContentEditable property. The following example includes a DIV element that includes the text "try editing this line...". When the user clicks a button, the contentEditable property of this line of text is switched. First, the code: